At least they are out there trying to make change happen. Perhaps if people got behind them they could refine and improve the technologies ?

I wonder how many new car makers don't have issues in early models. I think most car makers have a lot of issues.. Toyota most recently with massive
recalls.

Man, if this company was in my country.. I'd be behind them 120%. Hmmm, jobs, foot in the door for large scale production as petrol cars go into
major demise, even more jobs and some revitalising of local areas.

That's a very good point. Alot less resistance and most trains run on nearly flat ground at the massive expense of blasting through mountains and
building trestles over ravines and waterways.

BTW, I apologize for some of my rants... sometimes I get beside myself when I get heated up about a subject...it's a weakness. I get heated up on
this topic because there has been innovative adjustments and technology for ages that helps make internal combustion engines more efficient but the
patents were bought up and shelved. That's NOT a conspiracy theory btw...

As I said, I'm not a physicist, automotive or a motion engineer. What caught my attention on the commercial (that most of you have explained
correctly) was the idea of instead of making a "hybrid" car that really doens't get that much better mileage than anything else today and far less
than cars of the late 70's and early 80's...is the idea of a diesel powered generator that runs an electric motor...I wish I knew the science better.
If I am not mistaken, electric motors are far more efficient in transferring power to a drive train...more efficient, more reliable...per horse power
anyway. It would take less HP in an electric motor because it is far more efficient in transferring the energy....but I digress due to ignorance of
the higher disciplines in this field to be accurate...

But I am serious to the younger folks...if you are studying these kinds of fields...think hard about it....developing something along these lines just
might make you rich beyond your wildest dreams and dubbed a "hero that saved the planet"...

If you drove the two cars the same way the prius would have lower gas mileage. The BMW was barely over an idle and the prius driver was flooring it.
That doesn't reflect how people actually drive on the road.

As far as "green" goes, I never said anything about it being green. I simply posted a link in regards to gas mileage.

If you drove the two cars the same way the prius would have lower gas mileage. The BMW was barely over an idle and the prius driver was flooring it.
That doesn't reflect how people actually drive on the road.

As far as "green" goes, I never said anything about it being green. I simply posted a link in regards to gas mileage.

I enjoy your replies Bonco though you may have no references of that. I wasn't intending on jib-jabbing your post, I was just pointing out it isn't as
it says it is in reality, unless you just tool around town your whole life.

If so a golf cart is much more efficient! (we have those in 'town' here.

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